Think Pink

"who do you think you are? this smooth criminal..he's like a stranger in moscow. i must observe..i must smell the coffee for a long time. give in to me, godot." michael jackson clenched his fists. he knew deep down he had failed as a coffee investigator. a lifetime of work would end in utter failure. will you be there in the end, coffee? michael jackson could not imagine a coffee-less future. "this is it. the man in the mirror is not the coffee investigator i thought he was." he would seek out new coffee and new adventures, even if he was stripped of his title as coffee investigator. he murmured to his invisible alligator, "they don't care about us. we aren't wanted. it's a bad, dangerous world." he spoke to godot. "i'm gonna beat it. goodbye.....forever." he handed over his coffee investigator badge, brokenhearted.

So I kinda avoided posting this at first because I wanted to be sure that we'd work out, but my lovely girlfriend of almost a year now - Kate - and I are going strong and I absolutely love her We both want to go to the same college (but she's a genius so I'm sure she'll get in) and if we both make it we'll be roommates and I'm just so excited that I can't keep it bottled up! She's absolutely beautiful and I'm just really glad I got to meet her and that she loves me back. I just kinda wanted to let out my feelings because ahh I'm just really happy. We've joked about getting married but who knows, maybe we will one day.

someone please bleach my eyeballs i want to forget that certain people exist

I was reading a CNN article on this earlier, and since CNN apparently specializes in talking nonstop about downed planes, the top like 6 articles on their homepage were all about it. One of them was talking about all of the commercial airliners that have been shot down - and holy crap it's a lot. There was also an issue before this with the Russians shooting down a Ukrainian cargo plane.

I was going to screenshot it but my computer isn't behaving lol

any recommendations for stuff i should get on steam?

I grew up going to a christian private school because it was the only private school we could afford at the time. I had to listen to that stuff from kindergarten through 8th grade, so of course I was brainwashed into believing it. Around 7th grade I began questioning religion - I talked to my science teacher (who was christian and taught creationism and evolution, so I figured they were a good source) and pastor, and afterwards I started to think this is bullshit. In 8th grade I teetered back and forth a little bit - I was exposed to it almost all day every day so it was kind of hard to think critically instead of letting them sway me. I transferred to public school in 9th grade and pretty quickly I was like yeah no I'm 100% sure there's no god. My parents never went to church but my dad would drive me because I felt like I had to go. He waited in the car and watched DVDs instead of going in but I didn't think much of it. But once I became 100% sure I was atheist I decided I would have to tell my parents because I didn't want to go to church. I explained to them why I didn't believe anymore and they were literally like "we're so proud of you sweetie. If you'd continued believing it we wouldn't have stopped you, but we're glad to see you're at the age where you can think logically." And it turns out my parents are atheists too. But I totally just assumed they were christian? As my views developed and I learned more by 11th grade I was like I'm definitely an antitheist (for those who don't know, I'll use this quote to summarize: "I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.") So I'm just chilling and talking with my dad about antitheism and it turns out he's also an antitheist! I think my mom's strictly an atheist though. So long story short, you know your parents better than anyone else, but if you feel comfortable, go ahead and tell them you're an atheist (or agnostic or antitheist or a different religion or whatever). You might be really surprised by their reaction! I have a lot of friends whose parents are religious but they're atheist and don't go to church with their family. It seems to me that a lot of religious parents are at least fairly tolerant of their kids' beliefs, so you might as well give it a shot.

I remember hearing about this and to anyone who's wondering, the girl who was stabbed will make a full recovery and was doing better. I read this article like a few weeks ago though so I'd guess by now she's probably at least mostly recovered. I think those girls are just using the Slenderman thing as a cover. I work with kids a lot when I volunteer and I definitely can't picture a kid being stupid enough to believe that kind of thing. I have no idea what their motive was - maybe they're just sick - but I don't think it has anything to do with that Creepypasta. My brother's around that age right now and we have debates about issues like the national debt and stuff, so kids that age are certainly immature, but they're not unintelligent. I think there's a lot more to this story that the public doesn't know.

I'm terrified of drowning, although I can't really pinpoint why? I almost drowned once when I was little but all I remember is feeling kinda peaceful and not worrying or anything before my dad got me - like I didn't panic or get scared at all the entire time, so you'd think drowning wouldn't scare me. But now as an (almost) adult it's like wow that's absolutely terrifying? I mean idk I cannot think of anything more awful than being unable to breathe and blech I'd rather be shot than drown.

Lol well it's not so bad. I love school, I just hate doing the math packet. We still have the summer reading and questions on that and then some other stuff, but I like all the rest. I'm just AWFUL at math which is why I was dreading that packet

they're not assigning a summer math packet this year officially the greatest year of my life

I recall reading an article a while ago that was basically like the marriage rate isn't changing, but people are waiting a lot longer to get married. People are pursuing their careers now and putting a family on the back burner, so there's no need to get married early. Now that (most) people have stopped demonizing premarital sex a lot of people are just happy living with their boyfriend/girlfriend/etc and essentially acting married so they don't have to go through the hassle and large amount of money spent on a wedding, or the legal issues should they want to divorce. The divorce rate isn't higher than what it would naturally be. But for a ridiculously long time people were shamed for wanting a divorce - especially women. A tremendous amount of sexist societal pressure was put on (and still is) women to "be good" and keep their husbands happy. Until VERY recently a divorce was basically considered to be the woman's fault and something they were made to feel ashamed of. The divorce rate is only rising now because people aren't being pressured to stay in unhappy marriages.

lol it's a good job, it's just hard. $14.50 is their minimum wage - they refuse to pay anyone any less, and temps are exempt from taxes if they work infrequently. woo! and i'm working like 11 hour work days (with 20 minutes for lunch as my only break..probably breaking a few child labor laws but oh well) because i can't leave until my dad does.

i work as a warehouse assistant/kinda titleless does random things to help inside the office thing. it's at my dad's company, so he just assigns me to random employees who need help. i was doing math for literally 4 hours nonstop this morning and it was exhausting omg. and some waybill numbers didn't match and it was like holy firetruck i'm in over my head. but i'm making $14.50 an hour which is nice! and since i'm a temp they don't take out taxes.

this job is hard as hell but at least i'm making good money

Speaking for myself at least, it's pretty weird feeling like yep I definitely like boys because that's been reinforced as okay by everyone, but then I was like well I mean I actually like girls too so? And I sort of convinced myself that I didn't really like them, I just thought they were pretty and would be great friends. That's not actually how I felt but all I'd learned about was being gay or straight. I definitely wasn't gay, but I wasn't straight either, so I just kinda awkwardly tried to convince myself that I didn't really like girls. It's when I signed up for Tumblr that I learned about things like bisexuality, asexuality, etc. and finally I was like OH there is a word for how I feel! There are other people who feel this way!

We had a big BBQ at the house of one of my dad's partners, so that was fun. He had like 12 dogs and 12 little kids so I managed to land a massive babysitting job! Then my family walked down to see the fireworks. My town puts on some beautiful fireworks and there's music and it's really fun, so people from all the surrounding towns come here. It's in the downtown section, which is super old, so the traffic is literally miles long. We timed it and it's actually faster for us to walk the 1.5? 2? miles there than it is to drive. So yeah it was a fun time

It's William and Mary. It's more selective for girls than it is for boys. The men's admission rate (in state at least) is around 40%, while the women's is around 25%, and if you're oos it drops to around 20%-15%, It's my top choice for college which is SUPER nerve-wracking because just by applying the odds are stacked against me.

Holistic admissions aren't really very holistic. When only 10% of your students come from high school with a 3.5-3.8 GPA (everyone else is higher) that implies it's not very holistic. And the majority of applicants (over 70%) on each SAT section (CR, M, and W vary slightly) earn between a 700-800 on each section. I understand that a holistic admissions process takes into account every aspect of your application but I find it hard to believe there is barely anyone worth admitting whose SAT or GPA isn't perfect. I've read horror stories of people being rejected from my first choice when they had a 2300 SAT and 4.5 GPA with APs and tons of ECs and great essays.

i got a girl who got into a highly selective college review my essay and i made a few minor changes she suggested but otherwise it sounds like i'm good to go!! ahh i can't believe i'll know if i made it in or not by december!!

How the hell am I going to afford all of these? and how am I going to explain to my dad that I want swimsuit figures for my birthday

finally back home and with my own wifi uwu

Welcome to KH13! Have a great time

I'm a little uncertain? I'm 99% sure these things don't exist but some really weird stuff has happened to me and idk I guess ghosts are that 1% possibility. Ever since my grandma died weird shit has been happening at my grandpa's house. It's really cold and uncomfortable in some rooms. No matter how many times we shut the door to my grandpa's bedroom is always keeps opening, even though neither of us have been in there. It also gets really steamy in the bathroom for some reason? Like the shower isn't on, nothing's on. You just walk in and the mirror is all fogged up, and this didn't happen before. So I'm gonna go with overall, no, I don't think they exist, but I guess I can't completely rule out the possibility. Definitely not demons or anything because that implies hell exists and I definitely don't believe that, but I think maybe ghosts are possible? Like left over energy? I have no idea tbh, but I'll acknowledge there's a possibility.

Hill Clinton's new book is so good ahhhhh